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    Session 1: Why worry about ozone?

    1. The NASA Goddard DAAC site.
      • Text on Ozone and the Atmosphere.
      • Text on Measurements of atmospheric ozone.
      • Atmospheric Chemistry Images
      • Links page on atmospheric chemistry to other sites about ozone.
      • Nimbus-4 BUV (70-72) data and TOMS data (79-93), global images.
    2. Ozone concentration versus altitude, EPA site.
    3. The Dobson unit, a definition from the University of Cambridge site.
    4. Halley Bay Research Station
      • picture and description
      • map
      • Ozone Data (Upper curves are for 1957-72, lower curve is 1997-98)
      • Ozone Data (Mean October total column ozone values, 1950-present)
    5. More NASA sites.
      • History and explanation of the TOMS satellite (NASA Facts).
      • TOMS Home Page for TOMS data (Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer).
      • Ozone: What is it and why do we care about it (NASA facts).
      • NASA's Ozone Studies (NASA Facts).
    6. NOAA Ozone Altitude Profiles over the South Pole.
    7. World Meteorological Organization (WMO) site.
      • Northern Hemisphere ozone maps.
      • Executive summary for "Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 1994" by WMO, the Global Research and Monitoring Project, Report No. 37. Contains some "common questions" and answers about ozone.
      • 1998 WMO/UNEP Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion

    Session 2: Does oxygen chemistry explain the ozone hole?

    1. Info on the temperature of the stratosphere and troposphere, EPA site.

    Session 3: Does gaseous chlorine chemistry explain the ozone hole?

    1. Common questions about ozone from the 1994 WMO report No. 37.

    Session 4: Why have we replaced CFCs?

    Session 5: How is Antarctic ozone chemistry unique?

    1. Answers to many good ozone questions, by Robert Parson. Info is archived in several places:
      • Usenet Hypertext FAQs
    2. Stratospheric temperatures vs. date from NOAA. This graph includes 1998 temperatures, the minimum and maximum temperatures, and the mean, on one plot.
    3. Information on Polar Stratospheric Clouds from Cambridge University.

    Session 6: Why does the ozone hole form in the Antarctic spring?

    Other Resources and Linking Pages

    1. British Antarctic Survey with links.
    2. SEDAC site.
      • Stratospheric Ozone and Human Health Project Home page.
      • The United Nations Environment Programme's "Environmental Effects of Ozone Depletion: 1994 Assessment". The entire text of this document, regarded as the preeminent source of information regarding the impacts of increased ultraviolet radiation on the environment, is being provided for the first time through the SEDAC World Wide Web (WWW) site with permission from UNEP.
    3. Ozone guide from CIESIN.
    4. EPA stratospheric ozone Home Page.
    5. Center for Atmospheric Science at Cambridge University
      • An ozone hole multimedia tour.